I have three workshops up and coming at YogaHome studio, N16, ranging from a pop-up on the pelvic floor to a chance to combine somatic awareness movement, meditation and flowing yoga to re-set movement patterns and release tension in the spine, hips and shoulders.
How connected are you to your pelvic floor?
In this experiential movement-based workshop we will bring awareness to the muscles of the pelvic floor and use this to create a shift in perspective, as we bring our knowledge into a flowing practice.
Our pelvic floor muscles can become too weak (hypotonic) or too tight (hypertonic), through a variety of reasons including stress, posture, childbirth, health issues, and as we get older - life! We will explore softening and releasing as well as engaging and toning the muscles of the pelvic floor in different postures through a gentle yoga flow noticing the connection between other parts of the body …
There’ll be a little philosophy, since the pelvic floor muscles have a special place in classic yoga (mulha band, Vajroli and Sahajoli mudras) and explore how this can help or hinder us in our practice, whether it is pranayama, meditation or inversions.
Date: September 21st Join me for one or both of these SATYA-based workshops focussing on the spine:
How does your yoga feel?
Part 1 - Sort out those shoulders - Sunday October 12, 4pm - 6pm
Whether it’s the jaw, shoulders or areas of the back, we often have a tendency to grip, and that can be in our daily lives and in our yoga postures. Learn how to let go!
Join me this autumn for 2 workshops bringing in fascial release and somatic awareness movement threaded together with a flowing yoga practice to get into the deeper layers of the body
In the first workshop we’ll focus on the shoulders and spine starting with delicious slow, gliding, unwinding movements based on SATYA (Somatic Awareness Training for Yoga) to create freedom and fluid movement in the layers of connective tissues of the body (fascia). This can elicit change, releasing stagnancy on many levels, from unhelpful patterns of moving and holding pain or fatigue in the body, to getting stuck in your yoga practice. We’ll move into a stabilising yet soulful yoga flow building to some backbends and arm balances but with options / alternatives for all. We’ll finish with meditation and Savasana to bring it all together.
*Open to all, but not suitable for pregnant students.
*Please wear warm and comfortable clothes, ideally with no zips and fastenings that could dig in!
Sunday October12th 2025 Price - £28 (Discount for YH members)
Book via YogaHome
How does your yoga feel? Part 2
Finding freedom in the hips and the spine
Sunday November 23, 4pm - 6pm
The second workshop will again bring in fascial release and somatic awareness movement threaded together with a flowing yoga practice to get into the deeper layers of the body. We’ll finish with guided meditation and Savasana to bring it all together.
After a slow, floor-based fascia-release sequence to remove tension and lubricate the joints and tissues of the body, we’ll build through a stabilising yet soulful hip-focused flow with options / alternatives for all.
Who is it for? Ideal for those who either experience tightness, discomfort in the area or perhaps find certain backbends or hip postures elusive and want a way in. And for anyone who wants to get into their body more and move their practice to another level...
*Open to all, but not suitable for pregnant students.
*Please wear warm and comfortable clothes, ideally with no zips and fastenings that could dig in!
Price - £28 (Discount for YH members)
Book via YogaHome
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Focus on
Ashtanga Yoga
SATURDAY March 23rd, 4—6.00 PMWe will devote two hours to explore the Primary series with some optional balances, taking time to find healthy alignment and try techniques to take you towards the more challenging postures. We'll work on the all-important transitions, discover tips for attempting or improving jump-throughs and setting up the ending inversions, finishing with the breathing sequence and relaxation.
Saturday March 23rd
4.00 — 6.00 pm
YogaHome, Stoke Newington,
London N16
Cost: £30
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FORMS AND FLOWS
Workshops and Pop-ups
SATURDAY JUNE 17TH 2023 4.00-6.00PM
SMALL MOVEMENTS, BIG SHIFTS
Discover the art of moving with grace and ease in a series of
somatic awareness, fascia release and flow yoga workshops.
Creating freedom and fluid movement in the fascia (layers of connective tissues)
can elicit change, releasing stagnancy on many levels, from habitual patterns of
moving and holding pain or fatigue in the body, to getting stuck in your practice.
In this extended practice we’ll focus on the back, exploring how releasing issues
in your tissues can help increase feelings of wellness, relax the nervous system and
prepare the body, allowing you to deepen your experience of yoga poses and your
enjoyment of them, perhaps finding your way more easefully into some ‘elusive’ asana.
From a slow, floor-based SATYA (sensory awareness training) fascia-release sequence,
we’ll build through a stabilising yet soulful yoga flow, with options for all levels.
The fascia-releasing SATYA element of the session is based on the work of Tias Little,
with whom Jayne has studied for many years.
*Open to all students of yoga, Pilates and other styles of movement,
but not suitable for pregnant or post-natal women (up to 12 weeks).
*Please wear warm and comfortable clothes, ideally with no zips and
fastenings that could dig in!
Book via Yoga at the Arc, Islington, London, costs £25
HAVE YOU GOT HAPPY HIPS?
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Family yoga and mindfulness
When: Sunday March 15th, at Yoga Junction London N8Bring your kids along for a fun session of yoga stretching, stories, laughter and games. Learn some poses you can do together and variations that will be beneficial for young bodies - and minds. Become animals and discover some of the stories behind favourite yoga poses, play yoga games and sing as you tune into your breath! Yoga helps to boost self confidence, improves balance and agility as well as building strength and aiding good posture. It's also a fun activity to share!
Great for kids from 3 to age 8 and their parent/carer.
When: Sunday March 15thTime: 2.30-3.30pm
Cost: £13 per adult and child
Sensory Awareness and yoga – March 20th at YogaHome, London N16
Discover the art of unwinding
Beginning with floor-based movements, you’ll slide, glide, rock and move your body out of its habitual ways of holding itself. We’ll move to a stabilising and grounding asana practice with detail on alignment so you continue to feel inside the body, sensing how small, slow, shifts travel throughout your tissues. With this somatic awareness work you’ll learn to notice the smallest sensations and build this into your yoga, or indeed any other physical discipline. The practice is inspired by the fascia-releasing work of Tias Little, with whom Jayne has studied for many years.
Please wear warm & comfortable clothes ideally with no zips and fastenings that could dig in!
£14 drop-in, book via YogaHome
Forms and flows - a pop up class weaving together elements of Qigong and vinyasa flow yoga.
Date: Friday Feb 21 st, 6.30pm-8 pm
Cost: £14
Book: via YogaHome- yoga and qigong
CPD workshops for Teachers and trainee teachers
Modifying challenging asanas Saturday 19th January, 2019 at 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Yogahome, London N16
A Continuing Professional Development workshop for yoga teachers and teacher trainees, accredited by Yoga Alliance
We all know what it feels like to continually work towards a pose that that never seems to get any easier. For some students, the struggle towards that elusive asana can have a huge effect on their entire practice, physically, mentally and emotionally. This workshop will give practical ideas on empowering your students, giving intelligent krama/progressions and variations of poses (with and without props) to take them a little further on their journey, feeling that they have achieved something and going away happy. We will work to take everyone along for the ride!
How can you modify challenging yoga asanas to safely support your students and encourage each one to progress?
We will cover the following areas:
- Encouraging compassion and ahimsa (non violence), the first ‘rule’ of yoga.
Intelligent krama (steps): highlighting the pathway of progressions so everyone can build up at their own pace, never feeling stuck.
Always offering options for students to feel the right action, the essence, and the joy of any posture, whatever their experience.
- Appreciating the journey: struggle fosters humility, teaches tenacity, and develops patience!
- Language: not encouraging competitiveness, praising the essence and effort, not the final shape.
- Observation, a bit of psychology and a dose of good humour helps: to discourage risky or forceful behaviour, and to support the fearful, the defeated or embarrassed.
Discover what you can do with modifications to help bring all your students along for the ride!
This workshop is open to all yoga teachers regardless of training and lineage, all yoga teacher trainees, and any advanced yoga student interested in teaching skills.
Cost: £35;
Book via YogaHome
In October, I am running some workshops designed for teachers and trainee teachers. How can you modify challenging yoga asanas to safely support your students and encourage each one to progress?
We will cover the following areas:- Encouraging compassion and ahimsa (non violence), the first ‘rule’ of yoga.
Intelligent krama (steps): highlighting the pathway of progressions so everyone can build up at their own pace, never feeling stuck.
Always offering options for students to feel the right action, the essence, and the joy of any posture, whatever their experience.
- Appreciating the journey: struggle fosters humility, teaches tenacity, and develops patience!
- Language: not encouraging competitiveness, praising the essence and effort, not the final shape.
- Observation, a bit of psychology and a dose of good humour helps: to discourage risky or forceful behaviour, and to support the fearful, the defeated or embarrassed.
This workshop is open to all yoga teachers regardless of training and lineage, all yoga teacher trainees, and any advanced yoga student interested in teaching skills.
Cost: £35;
Book via YogaHome
Book via YogaHome
The art of skilful adjustments
Sat, 6 Oct 2018 at 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm at Yoghome, London N16Some students need just a very gentle pointer, reminding them to lift, breathe into or simply bringing awareness to a part of the body. Sometimes a student needs the physical support and stability to help them reach their full potential in a particular pose. Your task is reading your class and working out who needs what and when.
Points covered will include:
- Reading bodies — observing your class and seeing the individual before you approach and which can be very different for everyone.
- Why assist — and should we? Discussion/debate from both student and teacher’s point of view. And how to teach an entire class while assisting an individual.
- Types of assists/adjustments: Verbal cues. Gentle, minimal assists and compassionate propping, compared to supportive, anchoring assists to help ground a student so they can fly.
- Respecting boundaries and honouring your student’s practice.
- Transitions - Being mindful and present while assisting, and taking care of yourself throughout
This workshop is open to all yoga teachers regardless of training and lineage, all yoga teacher trainees, and any advanced yoga student interested in teaching skills. £35
Book via YogaHome
Going upside down - change your perspective
Points covered will include:
- Reading bodies — observing your class and seeing the individual before you approach and which can be very different for everyone.
- Why assist — and should we? Discussion/debate from both student and teacher’s point of view. And how to teach an entire class while assisting an individual.
- Types of assists/adjustments: Verbal cues. Gentle, minimal assists and compassionate propping, compared to supportive, anchoring assists to help ground a student so they can fly.
- Respecting boundaries and honouring your student’s practice.
- Transitions - Being mindful and present while assisting, and taking care of yourself throughout
This workshop is open to all yoga teachers regardless of training and lineage, all yoga teacher trainees, and any advanced yoga student interested in teaching skills. £35
Book via YogaHome
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There are many reported benefits of inversions — from improving the circulation and immune system, toning the organs, to renewing creativity and even slowing the aging process. But the benefit that needs no supporting evidence, is that they make you feel happy and improve confidence. They do not have to be perfect! Come along and put your feet up!
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If you are already confident with inversions, that’s brilliant… you will get ideas for different variations and techniques. There will be plenty of encouragement, support and tips for taking your practice further wherever you are.
Focus on Ashtanga Yoga
SATURDAY October 29th, 3—5.00 PM Ashtanga Ashtanga is at once challenging and calming. It demands discipline and commitment from yogis, yet within the structure of the Primary series, the main focus is on the expansion and flow of the breath. Ride the waves of your ujjayi breath, and your practice should become effortless, almost meditative. Come along and develop, or discover, your Ashtanga practice.
We will devote two hours to explore the Primary series, taking time to concentrate on healthy alignment and techniques, and work on the all-important transitions. Discover tips for attempting or improving jump-throughs and setting up the ending inversions, finishing with the breathing sequence and relaxation.
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